Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Philip Seymour Hoffman's CREEPIER brother?

On my daily 1 hour ride on the 4 train to work in the morning, I usually stand for 30 minutes of the trip and get a seat for the last 30 minutes of my trip to the Bronx for work. When you ride the subway for an hour each way to and from work every day, you spend a lot of time spacing out, sleeping, and in my case, staring at everyone else on the train. Some people fascinate me, some make me laugh, and on some special days like today, they creep me out.

Today I sat across from a man that can only be described as Philip Seymour Hoffman's creepier brother. I know that is hard to imagine. Philip Seymour Hoffman (of Capote fame: http://michaelsmoviemania.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/capote.jpg), in my opinion, is one of the creepiest people in the world. He's on a whole other level of creepy, even more so than Willem Dafoe, the former champion of creepiness.

So let me paint the picture: a man in his late 40s to mid 50s, a bit overweight, with light orange thick-rimmed glasses. He's wearing khaki pants that have stains all over them from where he probably wiped his hands while eating. Plaid shirt, beige nylon jacket (like a Members Only jacket). Black velcro shoes that are bulging from keeping his feet in. He is reading one of the free newspapers they hand to you on the subway, and he keeps smacking his lips every few seconds as he reads. At one point he looked up and took his glasses off and wiped them off with his hands and then put his glasses back on and then LOOKED AT ME. It took everything in me not to gasp because it sent a shiver down my spine when we he looked at me. AHHHHHHHH! I know I shouldn't stare at people and I'm sure he is a perfectly nice person but I just couldn't stop thinking that he is one of those people you see on the news for being a child molester.

THAT'S SO SO SO SO TOTALLY CREEPY!